Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the magic hour lighting. To license footage contact hankschyma@gmail.com ..... This video is composed of over 5000 still images animated to create a time lapse. Several events of isolated thunderstorm activity are used to tell the story of a single thunderstorm and associated phenomenon. All storms were photographed between April 1st and July 1st of 2015 in tornado Alley except the rope tornado footage from 5-17-13. The music "Pillbox" was composed by Pecos Hank Schyma and originally recorded by Southern Backtones and can be purchased online everywhere. The narration is by the multi-talented Bee Xoomsai. Contact her at BeeXoomsai.com

- Blue skies soar over an increasingly unstable atmosphere as tornado watch is issued.
- An isolated thunderstorm rises high into the atmosphere and precipitation begins to fall.
- Sheets of rain reflect, refract and disperse sunlight into the visible color spectrum.
- Cloud-to-ground lightning activity increases as the storm begins to rotate.
- A tornado warning is issued. Source: Radar indicated rotation.
- The mesocyclone lowers from the base of the storm.
- A confirmed tornado has been reported.
- The explosive updrafts flatten into the ceiling of the troposphere.
- At sunset, the isolated thunderstorm creates a dance of light and color.
- Decreasing sunlight reveals more and more lightning activity.
- Bursts of cloud-to-air lightning reach out into the naked sky
- Downstream, mammatus clouds sail underneath the storms anvil.
- A full moon emerges from behind the storm clouds
- Icy cirrus cloud crystals refract moonlight into a lunar halo.

All storm Footage Copyright Hank Schyma 2015
To license 4K storm footage or HD, contact hankschyma@gmail.com